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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. |
0:08.8 | Let me guess. You were told that your 20s were going to be the best decade of your life. |
0:13.2 | Like you'd have the dream body or dream job, live in a dream apartment, you'd be going out |
0:17.7 | every night with your friends. You'd have this amazing love life. You'd find your person, get married, in your dream wedding. That would be your 20s. |
0:25.2 | Eh, cure reality. Your job feels pointless, if you even have one. You're getting ghosted again. |
0:32.4 | Your friends are gone. That new city doesn't feel like home, and you're lying in bed wondering |
0:36.9 | if you're the only one in |
0:38.4 | your 20s crying on a Tuesday night, well, your friend Mel is here to tell you, you're not. I get it. |
0:44.8 | In your 20s, you don't know what you want to do with your life. Neither did I. And if you're like me, |
0:49.9 | you're just trying to figure out how to pay rent and not hate yourself in the process. |
0:55.3 | See, here's the problem. |
0:59.6 | The problem is that social media makes it seem like everyone else is thriving. |
1:04.5 | They're hitting these milestones, launching influencer accounts, falling in love, buying houses, |
1:08.7 | chasing their dreams, traveling 24-7, eating at all the best restaurants. |
1:10.3 | That's a fantasy. Today, you and I are going to talk |
1:13.1 | reality. The reality is the 20s are the hardest decade of your life. And so if you're confused, |
1:20.5 | lonely, uncertain, it doesn't mean that you're doing anything wrong. In fact, it just means you're in |
1:26.1 | your 20s. Everyone feels lost, regardless of what they're posting |
1:30.2 | online or what they're communicating in the group chat. Let me prove it to you. I have 10 million |
1:35.1 | people who follow me on Instagram, and I ask them, hey, if you're in your 20s, are you struggling? |
1:40.4 | And if so, what are you struggling with the most? Holy cow, it was the same themes and questions over and |
1:48.0 | over and over again in every single response. You said, how do I end the relationship, move to a new |
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